react/review: a responsive journal for art & architecture

Mountains, rivers, screens, wires…the natural and the video mechanic activate one another in Shigeko Kubota’s (1937-2015) video sculptures. The Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation’s Workshop and Video Artspace in Beacon, New York presented a selection of six works made between 1976 and 1996 during its open studio exhibition in Upstate Art Weekend from July 17 to July 21, 2025. The exhibition highlights Kubota’s formal and conceptual innovations in presenting natural landscapes through television monitors and sculptural forms. The assortment of landscapes shown narrate Kubota’s journey of place-making as she moved from her birthplace Niigata, Japan to Tokyo, and later, New York City.